Our education system in and of itself is fine, the opportunity is there. Can't fix the parents that use it as a babysitter. Infrastructure I agree on. Granted ATL might be different but I see it being worked on all the time in the burbs. Even the city is finally getting their shit together with the sewage and water systems but they waited way way way too long so it'll be a while. But how is the wall taking any focus off of those things? Infrastructure tends to be local news no matter what. Education isn't remotely news because that would get people to look way too closely at that industry. So the wall isn't hiding either thing.
The money is penny ante to build the actual wall. The money being asked for is penny ante compared to the entire budget.
An interesting teacher's tale about our schools. Yes, it's a bit long. https://quillette.com/2019/02/10/public-educations-dirty-secret/
